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Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...orders. The justice committee also recommended that a statutory child maintenance agency be established. It is time that Ireland started to show due respect to lone-parent families and also to carers, the majority of whom are also women and many of whom also experience significant financial strain. I do not understand why carers, who are saving the State hundreds of millions in costs...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...impact by empowering and facilitating families and ensuring we can bridge the gap and can allow people to get onto this route out of poverty. The Minister and I have spoken many times about family carers and the fact we need to take a look at how we deal with this issue. I accept there are big differences between the supports provided to many family carers. We probably could not put...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., it was just causing more grief, more administration and so on. I hope that this is the first of many changes this year. The Minister has brought in changes previously and has done good work on the means-testing of the carer's allowance and the fuel allowance, in particular, which is very welcome. I am looking forward to the report the Department is preparing on social welfare...